455: The Grocery Store Baseball Theory
Dear Hank & John
Complexly
4.9 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Why can you see the outline of the full moon during a crescent moon? What do I do with a surplus of basil plants? How do I make amends with my mom? How do light particles not bump into each other and mess up their trajectories? Are Hank and John aware of how American they are? What do I do with my tongue at the dentist? …Hank and John Green have answers!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Complexly podcast. |
| 0:09.2 | Hello and welcome to Dear Hank and John. |
| 0:12.4 | Or as I prefer to think of it, Dear John and Hank. |
| 0:14.5 | It's a podcast where two brothers answer your questions, give you to be his advice, |
| 0:17.5 | and bring you all the week's news from both Mars and AFC Wimbled and John. What is the difference between a well-dressed man on a unicycle |
| 0:25.2 | and a poorly dressed man on a bicycle? What is that? Attire. Ah yes, on two levels. Two different |
| 0:35.1 | ways. It's funny twice. It's funny in two different ways. It's not funny |
| 0:41.0 | in either way, very, but it is funny in two ways some. And that makes it funny vary by being. |
| 0:49.0 | It multiplies. Yes. Well, Hank and I are starting the podcast late today because we have been talking about my book, |
| 0:57.6 | It's true. |
| 0:58.0 | It's true. |
| 0:58.0 | Which Hank read, finally. |
| 1:01.1 | You know, I went up to like a nice little spot and I just sat down with it. |
| 1:12.9 | And man, it freaking took over my brain. |
| 1:15.0 | What mom said is she was like, |
| 1:17.5 | it's the most surprising John Green book I've ever read. |
| 1:18.7 | Hmm. |
| 1:20.8 | She didn't say that to me, |
| 1:22.0 | but that's nice. |
| 1:26.1 | Like plot-wise surprising or what? I think that she was very surprised by, well, I can't tell you now, we're talking to the people. |
| 1:32.1 | But the twists and turns, the actual plotting. |
| 1:34.2 | Yes. I think that there was a, which is funny because it's a plot thing that I, I didn't know it was going to happen, but I got very worried it was going to happen. |
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